United States onlyAt Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world’s most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what’s possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future.
Data Engineer
Would you like to use your data engineering skills to help policy makers, corporate leaders, and operators make sense of increasingly complex information spaces? Two Six Technologies provides Information Advantage to Government, Military, and private sector customers tasked with mission critical decision making.
Our products collect and synthesize huge quantities of publicly available data in multiple languages, then serve that data to be easily queried by our expert analysts and used in machine learning analytics. As a data engineer you will work with product engineering teams, data scientists, devops, and architects, to apply best practices for data storage and retrieval in the design and implementation of new products, features, and capabilities.
You are very comfortable with both SQL and noSQL databases, in particular the Elasticsearch stack, which is at the heart of our high-volume, data-driven products and capabilities. Having previous experience with data in multiple languages is a huge plus! You have experience working with AWS, Linux, and ideally with technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. You also have worked as a member of remote engineering teams in Agile software development environments. You should be excited about organizing data in a way that supports the latest in Natural Language Processing analytics, including generative AI.
Most importantly you share our passion for applying technology to solve hard problems and finding innovative ways to derive insights from high-volume data.
Responsibilities:
- Developing and enhancing high volume data storage and querying solutions that enable analysis by both human experts and machine learning solutions
- Operating in a collaborative, agile environment, with a focus on taking action and working closely with peers to enable team success
- Creating proofs-of-concept and prototypes to quickly test ideas, as well as designing and building scalable, production-ready solutions
- Considering security best practices at every phase of software development
- Continuously learning and improving
- Working within Agile software development methodologies and being an active part of our continuous improvement efforts
- Working in a fully remote team with a diverse set of skills and experiences
- Independently identifying and solving problems, and questioning assumptions in pursuit of the right solutions
- Actively participating in the peer code review process
- Working closely with application engineers, mostly working in Python, to implement scalable solutions for loading, generating, aggregating, and analyzing data
- Creating and executing both manual and automated testing
Qualifications:
- Extensive experience with the full Elasticsearch stack, including indexing and search APIs, and Kibana, ideally with both locally hosted and Elastic hosted instances
- Experience with SQL database technologies, ideally Postgres
- Experience with AWS or similar cloud-based infrastructure
- Experience with Python
- Experience with the design, development, testing, and support of scalable, data-driven applications deployed to production SaaS environments
- Experience working independently and as a part of an Agile team
Optional Skills / Domain Experience
- Experience with optimizing the processing, storage, and querying of data in multiple languages
- Hands on experience managing the full Elastic stack, including deployment, infrastructure, security, and backup recovery, is not required but definitely a plus
- Elastic certification
- AWS certification
- Experience with data science and advanced analytics
Two Six Technologies is committed to providing competitive and comprehensive compensation packages that reflect the value we place on our employees and their contributions. We believe in rewarding skills, experience, and performance. Our offerings include but are not limited to, medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, retirement benefits, paid leave, tuition assistance and professional development.
The projected salary range listed for this position is annualized. This is a general guideline and not a guarantee of salary. Salary is one component of our total compensation package and the specific salary offered is determined by various factors, including, but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills, geographic location, as well as contract specific affordability and organizational requirements.
